Washington, Jan. 26 (PTI): Arish Singh, the Sikh who was forced out of Donald Trump's election rally for waving a "Stop Hate" banner, has said he plans to take his protests to more rallies of the Republican presidential frontrunner.

Singh, a former editor of Little Village, a local newspaper, and a comedian, was escorted out of a rally in Muscatine in Iowa on Sunday after he interrupted Trump's anti-Muslim speech.

"I am a not a Muslim. But you don't have to be a Muslim to stand against anti-Muslim bigotry," Singh, a resident of Chicago, tweeted yesterday.

"I did interrupt him. I did say, 'Why do you give shelter to white supremacists? Why do we have white supremacists robo-calling in Iowa?' I did say that as we dropped the banner," Singh told the Little Village in an interview.

Trump has not attacked Sikhs directly but Singh pointed to a series of recent hate crimes against Muslim Americans. It is part of the Sikh tradition to stand up to injustice regardless of where it might manifest, he said.

"I don't really care about Trump himself or his political party but this sort of movement that he's emboldened - this sort of fascistic element that genuinely identifies with fascism, that's willing to commit hate-crimes - that's something that's real that needs to be confronted, and you can't just let that go without comment, and I think that's kind of how it's been treated," Singh said.